Die Märchen des Oscar Wilde erzählt im Zuchthaus zu Reading
Collaboration as a dancer for the theatre play ‘Die Märchen des Oscar Wilde erzählt im Zuchthaus zu Reading’ at the Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus from the 2025 season
A prison cell in Reading in 1895, where the most famous and at the same time most scandalous poet of Victorian England is imprisoned: Oscar Wilde, accused of homosexuality and sentenced to two years of hard labour. The author of ‘The Picture of Dorian Gray’ began his prison sentence as a broken man. Publicly humiliated, mistreated and abandoned by his lover Lord Alfred Douglas, Wilde is faced with the ruins of his existence. If he were to survive the inhumane prison conditions and regain his freedom, he would have no choice but to become a completely different person.
Cast
Oscar Wilde: Yascha Finn Nolting
Thomas Martin, Prison Guard: Thomas Wittmann
Constance, Wilde's wife / Salome / Nymph / Moth: Anya Fischer
Ada Leverson, a confidante of Wilde / Nymph / Owl: Sarah Steinbach
The Princess / Daughter of the Professor / Nymph / Spider: Luise Zieger
Robert Ross, Wilde's closest friend: Raphael Gehrmann
Student / O.C. Maurice, Doctor: Elias Nagel
Carson, lawyer for the opposition: Sebastian Tessenow
lsaacson, the prison warden: Thiemo Schwarz
Nightingale / Walter Grainger / Dwarf: Michael Fünfschilling
James Taylor / Don Pedro / Fox / Swallow: Roman Wieland
Prince, Prisoner A 2.1.1 / Bat: Markus Danzeisen
Lord Alfred Douglas / Narcissus: Eray Gülay, Igor Meneses Sousa
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Lady Wilde, Wilde's Mother / Red Rose / Rocket: Georgette Dee
Extras
Prisoners: Ivaylo Dimitrov, Rolf Giesen, Nicole Marpmann, Carl Wrobel / Daniel Deason
Cyril and Vyvian, the sons of Oscar Wilde / Prisoners: Luke Dopheide / Philipp Jagiela, Rafael Wohlleber / Anton Jäger
Band
Grand piano: Matts Johan Leenders / Hajo Wiesemann
Violin 1: Sophie Moser / Lisa Maria Schumann-Heinen
Violin 2: Zuzana Leharová / Laura Knapp
Viola: Maria del Mar Vargas Amezcua / Maurice Maurer
Cello: Ella Rohwer / Jola Shkodrani
Miyadaiko: Max Hilpert / Carl Zinsius
Director: André Kaczmarczyk
Music: Matts Johan Leenders
Stage: Ansgar Prüwer
Costume: Martina Lebert
Lights: Konstantin Sonneson
Dramaturgy: Janine Ortiz
